Newspaper-file



G. H. WRIGHT. NEWSPAPER FILE.

(No Model.)

N0. 536,314. 'Patented MarLZG, 1895;

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. WRIGHT, OF LIVINGSTON, MONTANA.

NEWSPAPER-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,314, dated March 26,1 895.

Application filed Novemher26,1894. Serial No. 529, (Nomads) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Livingston, in the county of Park and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Newspaper-Files; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to newspaper files, and among the objects in view is to provide'a device of this character which shall be simple and inexpensive in construction and adapted to be easily and quickly manipulated to adapt it to receive the newspapers, and to be likewise manipulated to allow the papers to be taken from the file, and my invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device, showing the same in its open position to receive a newspaper, the latter being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device in its intermediate position. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the device as closed and clamping the newspaper in position. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view showing the arrangement of the locking screw. Fig. 5 is a-detail perspective view upon an enlarged scale of the screw, thumb-nut 7, its boss and the disk 9.

In its construction my device comprises two sections 1 and 2 whichare adapted to clamp or secure between them newspapers or the like. The said sections 1, 2, are pivotally connected together near opposite ends by means of hinges 3, to adapt the sections to have a swinging or pivotal movement with respect to each other. The hinges 3 are pivotally connected to the sections 1, 2 by pivot pins or studs 4 and the opposite faces of the sections are slotted as at 5 to receive the leaves of the hinges and thus permit the sections to lie in close proximity as seen in Fig. 3. p

The inner face of the section 1 is recessed as at 6 for nearly its entire length so as to pro- Vide a space for the papers when the parts are in the position seen in Fig. 3, and in order that the parts may be locked in any desired position, that is to say, the section 2 locked in any position in its swinging movement relatively to section 1, which locking of the parts is desirable to tightly clamp and hold the pa pers from displacement, any desirable looking means may be employed. I prefer to employ asst-screw 7 which works upon one of the pivot studs 4 which projects beyond one side of the section 1 to receive the screw 7, and is threaded for that purpose. has a boss 8 which is adapted to bear upon a ring or disk 9 mounted on the stud, so that by screwing up the screw 7 the disk 9 will be caused to bind tightly against the leaf of the hinge and thus prevent the latter from swinging or movlng upon its pivot.

To facilitate the placing of papers within the file I prefer to employ hinges the leaves of which are pivotally connected together as at 10, whereby the leaves are adapted to turn at right angles to each other, as seen in Fig. 1 so that the section 2 of the device will lie to one side of the section 1, to permit the papers to be readily placed over the impaling pins 11 I carried by the section 1. After the papers have been impaled upon the pins 11 the section 2 is brought into the position seen inFig.

2 and then swung down into the position seen in Fig. 3 andfthe set-screw tightened to securely hold the papers in place.

To release the papers, the set-screw is loosened, and the section 2 swung up into the position seen in Fig. 2 and then into the position seen in Fig. 1 after which the papers may be readily removed.

It will thus be seen that the section 2 has two movements relatively to section 1, one being longitudinally or in the same vertical plane as the section 1 and the other transversely of the. latter section.

One end of the section 1 may be extended to form a handle 12, and the whole device may be supported in any suitable support or rack as is usual.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein described newspaper file the same comprising two sections, hinges having The screw leaves pivotally connected together at one end and adapted to be swung at an angle to each other transversely of one of the sections, and

the other ends of the leaves being pivotally connected to the sections, all as and for the purpose specified.

2. The herein described newspaper file the same comprising two sections, hinges having leaves pivotally connected together atone end and adapted to be swung at an angle to each other transversely of one of the sections, and the other ends of the leaves being pivotally connected to the sections, and means for looking one of the sections from longitudinal movement relatively to the other section as and for the purpose specified.

3. The herein described newspaper file, the same comprising two sections, each being pro- GEORGE II. WRIGHT.

Vi tnesses:

JOHN H. CoRNwELL, GEORGE T. CHAMBERS. 

